On Wednesday, November 9, Meta Platforms announced that it would be cutting more than 11,00 workers from the company.

On Wednesday, May 5, Facebook’s Oversight Board decided to uphold Donald Trump’s January 7, 2021, ban from the social media platform, as well as Instagram. However, the Oversight Board wrote: “it was not appropriate for Facebook to impose the indeterminate and standardless penalty of indefinite suspension.”

In a recent interview with Reuters, Facebook Chief Operating Officer (COO) Sheryl Sandberg said that there is no plan by Facebook to lift its ban on President Trump on the platform. Sandberg said, “the risk to our democracy was too big that we felt we had to take the unprecedented step of what is an indefinite ban and I’m glad we did.”

On Monday, January 11, 2021, Libertarian icon and former U.S. Representative Ron Paul said that Facebook has blocked him from managing his official Public Figure page “with no explanation”.

The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday, December 9th, that the agency has sued Facebook for ‘illegal monopolization’ and “challenges Facebook’s multi-year course of unlawful conduct”.

The CEO of the Babylon Bee said on Twitter Tuesday that Facebook demonetized the satire website for incitement of “violence” for a Monty Python joke.

In a response to the newly released emails showing that Joe Biden had been introduced to a top executive at a Ukrainian firm Burisma Holdings by his son Hunter Biden, Facebook says they will be “reducing its distribution on our platform” of the story from the New York Post. The emails are now under investigation by the Senate Homeland Security Committee.